Update - got another course up

Well, pictures are over at the Picasa site, which is much easier to upload photos to.  (Please use the link on the side of the page).

We have subfloor screwed on top of joists on the main floor, except for the opening for our spiral staircase.  Now we can move step-ladders around and get those logs in place.  I bought 3 new sledgehammers to replace the two that we broke from hitting rebar with the handle instead of the head.

So things are speeding up now - we've had wonderful weather this week, hopefully it continues for another two weeks, and we could have our walls up.

Dave

September Update

The rest of our pictures can be viewed over on Picasa.

August Pictures

Here are a bunch of pictures from August. September in the next post.

Tired of manually cutting rebar

Here's my solution.

 

Slow July!

Well, after we poured the basement walls the rain began in earnest. It started just as we were finishing off trowelling the top of the walls and placing the rebar that will hold the first layer of logs to the basement walls. For the next two weeks we had torrential downpours at random times just about daily. Pictures of us trying to pump the water out from beside the basement will follow. Dave also had an accident during this two weeks. He was taking support boards off the wall. As he was trying to knock some higher boards off the wall the board that he was using to hold onto decided to come off as well! This resulted in Dave jumping/falling down and landing on a piece of rebar sticking out of the short wall below him. The rebar punctured his inner thigh about 2 inches from the top of his leg and bruised some other areas. After some stitches and a tetanus shot we returned to the build site, but decided to go home to the house in town to recover as I had also injured my back, so we were pretty useless for a few days. To make a long story slightly shorter we have now started to backfill and have almost finished peeling the first 24 logs! Our next steps are to get the basement floor poured and build the rest of the walk-out wall. Then we can start laying logs! What a day that will be! Hope you're enjoying the journey with us.

These two pictures show the rebar that Dave fell on. It was sticking straight up, but he bent it when he fell on it!